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by dabockster 11mo ago
You clearly don't know how Swing or Eclipse SWT works under the hood. Java's big strength is that it's a memory safe, compiled, and sandboxed low level platform with over a quarter century of development behind it. But it his
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> Personally I'm hesitant to allow mine (I use Cline personally) access to a web search MCP and I tend to give it only relatively trustworthy URLs. Web search MCPs are generally fine. Whatever is facilitating tool use (whatever prog
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by dabockster 11mo ago
Jevons paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox It's the same problem with OpenRouter's free tiers for a long time. If something is truly $0 and widely available, people will absolutely bleed it
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by dabockster 11mo ago
This isn't true. I've gotten Claude and its forks to do things the same way as Copilot.
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> so is probably only focused at local web design development vibe coding Quick, someone throw the Linux kernel source at it and report back! xD
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> We get on Zooms to talk. Even with the person 1 cubicle over. Who normalized this?!!
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> It is a vs code fork. With vendor lock-in to Google's AI ecosystem, likely scraping/training on all of your code (regardless of whatever their ToS/EULA says), and being blocked from using the main VS Code extensions libr
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> I don't know what IntelliJ is. It started as a modernized Eclipse competitor (the Java IDE) but they've built a bunch of other IDEs based on it. Idk if it still runs on Java or not, but it had potential last I used it about a
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by dabockster 11mo ago
US government bonds
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> The failure mode of self-hosting is that your site gets hugged to death Learn 2 load balance
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by dabockster 11mo ago
The free credits... what a WILD time! Just show up to a hackathon booth, ask nicely, and you'd get months/years worth of "startup level" credits. Nothing super powerful - basically the equivalent of a few quad core boxes
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> At several startups, getting a simple €20–50/month Hetzner server meant rounds with leadership and a little dance with another department to hand over a credit card. That's not a startup if you can't go straight to the f
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by dabockster 11mo ago
> But maybe things have changed in ways that meaningfully changes the calculus? I'd argue that Docker has done that in a LOT of ways. The huge draw to AWS, from what I recall with my own experiences, was that it was cheaper than on-
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by dabockster 11mo ago
Apples and oranges, tbh.
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by dabockster 11mo ago
You're literally playing into what the author is criticizing.
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by dabockster 1y ago
Depends on what VMware product you’re using. I’m still stuck on Workstation Pro because Hyper-V takes over my computer and slows down anything virtualized that isn’t Windows. For servers, there’s things like Proxmox that are super versatile
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by dabockster 1y ago
Or I just metaprompt a new chat if the one I’m in starts hallucinating.
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by dabockster 1y ago
From what I understand, only on the server level (just like the West). Desktops are still largely Windows or Mac.
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by dabockster 1y ago
And even then, the car is at a dealer and not your garage or some random shop. So it can potentially make the OEM liable if the update goes sideways.
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by dabockster 1y ago
I think that’s the big intent here. Make the operating system’s parental controls more all encompassing.
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by dabockster 1y ago
> So, an IT director might have to certify that all sysadmins and developers are over 18? From what I understand, CA wants some kind of age field at the operating system/browser level that can be set once by a parent and trusted to
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by dabockster 1y ago
No it’s stupidity incarnate. Or these people have ADHD and are having it abused for corporate profits. Either way these people are going to be empty walking husks in under a year, likely for the rest of their lives. Wasn’t there some kind o
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by dabockster 1y ago
> Basically the Linux world was actively designed to apps difficult to distribute. It has "too many experts", meaning that everyone has too much decision making power to force their own tiny variations into existing tools. So y
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by dabockster 1y ago
The big selling points for me were what you said about simplifying deployments, but also the fact that a container uses significantly less resource overhead than a full blown virtual machine. Containers really only work if your code works i
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by dabockster 1y ago
> There is no need to invent new regulations. The current regulations are written for a time where cars didn't have rolling computers in them. And even then, the regulations don't account for Tesla-style linked systems. So I sa
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by dabockster 1y ago
Software updates for cars should be rare, with the infotainment systems physically isolated from the rest of the car (aside from constant/switched power). And if it needs updates for whatever reason (eg a recall), they should be done a
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Gavin Newsom signs age verification law(politico.com)
18 points by dabockster 1y ago|12 comments
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by dabockster 1y ago
The title is extremely misleading - you have to rent time on an H100 cluster to get it to work. It is not on-device, and thus not truly $100. I was really excited, too, until I looked through the readme files and the code.
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by dabockster 1y ago
Discord's limitation is scaling as well, to be honest. It's incredibly hard to follow a server full of tens of thousands of people. Just because something can scale in a technical sense doesn't mean it will scale in a human o
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by dabockster 1y ago
> although time to first token is... not great The token cache works on CUDA too. So yeah, the initial loadout sucks, but almost everything from then on is solid.

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